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How to pronounce “launch”

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Pronunciation guide for launch

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of launch with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment ExplorerWe launched September 6.
Definition summary: (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.

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Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer

We launched September 6.

[Verb]
(transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
(transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
(transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
(transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
(intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
(intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
(intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
[Noun]
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.